I would suppose that you have somewhere a file with a correspondence between old names and new names. If so, please provide a sample of that file so that we can figure out how to use it.

The idea would be then to read this file and to load the information into a hash (old name = key, new name = value). Then you read your other file (the one you want to process), read the input, lookup into the hash and write the new name (to a new file).

I can't give you much more details at this point. We would need to see a sample of the file with the translation (old to new name) as well as a sample of your input file.

In reply to Re^3: Substitute script for a newbie by Laurent_R
in thread Substitute script for a newbie by jspanos

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